From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>; Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>; Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>; pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>; Srini Raghavan <sixersrini@yahoo.com>
Sent: Fri, January 14, 2011 3:36:02 PM
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Database file copy
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Tom Lane <
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Kevin Grittner" <
Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov> writes:
>> If we're going to be supporting that long term, we should probably
>> change the note about FREEZE being deprecated, though.
>
>> So, still +1 on removing the wording about FREEZE being deprecated,
>> but instead we should mention what actually *is* deprecated (the
>> omission of the parentheses).
>
> If we're going to do that, we should deprecate the unparenthesized
> syntax altogether, with an eye to de-reserving VERBOSE and ANALYZE
> as well.
I'm not wildly enthusiastic about breaking this with only one
intervening release. We normally support deprecated syntax for quite
a bit longer than that.
--
Robert Haas
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